Strategies for Interior Design Professionals

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About Designing Your Business

Designing Your Business brings the expertise of a business and legal professional to the practice of interior design. Accordingly, the book serves as a strong reference for basic business and legal concepts. It aims to make students savvy business people as well as creative interior designers. In an accessible tone, the text explores business organisation, and legal and ethical issues that arise in the practice of interior design. Business finance and accounting are also explained by showing the necessity of adequately defining a designer's scope of services and methods of charging. The textual explanations are augmented with chapter exercises and projects that simulate the actual, day-to-day work issues faced by interior designers. The book's hands-on approach and engaging interactive pedagogy bring relevance to the topics of law and business and show interior design students how their business decisions can facilitate their professional practices.

Table Of Contents

* You and Your Work
-Introduction to Professional Practices
-Starting Your Work
-Working Ethically
* You and Your Business
-Understanding Law and Your Business
-Planning Your Business Finances
-Managing Your Business
-Promoting Your Work
* You and Your Clients
-Defining the Services You Provide
-Charging Your Clients
-Managing Your Client's Project
-Defining the Client Relationship
* You and Your Resources
-You and Your Relationship with Vendors
-You and Your Relationship with Service Providers
* You and Your Career
-Becoming a Pofessional
-Planning Your Career
TEXT FEATURES
* Strategic approach that guides readers in planning their careers with their personal goals and competencies in mind
* Information tailored to the specific business needs of residential and contract designers
* Three types of activities for each chapter: development of personal business strategies, an ongoing exercise progressing through the stages of a residential interior design project, and case studies of contract design projects
* Instructor's Guide includes recommended course outlines, and suggestions for teaching each chapter, and tests

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